I don't think it's strange at all that as good a band as Radiohead would have fans who disagree with them politically.

Tender Prey has its moments but I greatly prefer Nick Cave the crooner over Nick Cave the out-of-tune shouter.  Back in the day he just didn't give a good goddamn about whether he was close to a note or not and that sort of attitude makes the aural processing centers in my brain hurt.

You could say that the artificial nature of his persona is like a sword of Damocles that's been hangin' die-rectly above us this whole time…

I also dislike this album but, no more than I already disliked Nocturama, so it's not like it sours me on his whole approach.  We'll always have Let Love In, Murder Ballads, and No More Shall We Part as albums that stay to the correct side of the thin line between awesome and ridiculous cheese.

Spoilers: It's gonna be Holst, Wagner, and Stravinsky.

Well he's no Korngold but he's a hell of a lot better than his bombastic competition Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer.  He's great at coming up with themes that don't all sound like each other, and he's also good at developing them in interesting non-obvious ways.  And while he may not be that original, he only rips off…

"Didn't go in; just impacted on the surface"

I can't even begin to fathom what a paper complaining about canon formation would look like. 
"In this work we demonstrate that Beethoven totally wasn't even that great"
"In this work we demonstrate that Bruch's first violin concerto sounds like crap compared with his oft-neglected second and third violin concertos"
"In…

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Slouching Liger Bedridden Wagon

Spike Lee!

Quentin Tarantino.
He likes westerns, he likes Samurai, he likes the 70s, he's the perfect choice.

Spade.

Seriously, what a boring choice.

Slicker, and less distinctive.

Well, this is sort of dumb.
Leaving aside the disgusting auto tune artifacts, changing the key without changing the arrangement of the instrumental backing makes the arrangement incoherent.
Also makes the melody a bit incoherent, because the previously resigned minor 7ths become tense major 7ths, among other problems.
Als…

Any sense at all?
His tone is rough, but he's got great phrasing and while his pitch slides all around it starts and ends in places consonant with the musical backing, which is more than you can say for, e.g., Patrick Stickles.

I think I finished book 4 eventually but found it too damn boring to bother going on.  I read it right after all of the then-published Song of Ice and Fire books and it pissed me off that none of the main characters were dying and therefore the stakes were pretty low, all the time.

K-Strewn?

K-Strewn?